REPRESENTATIONS OF BECOMING-WOMAN IN THE NELIDIAN NARRATIVE
Nélida Piñon. Feminine identity. Becoming-woman.
This thesis aims to carry out a critical reading of works by the contemporary writer Nélida Piñon, questioning how the identity representations of some characters are configured, especially the female protagonists of the novels A Casa da Paixão (1972) and A doce Canção de Caetana (1987), in a association with the notion of becoming-woman discussed by French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (2012b). In this attempt, we start from a discussion that deals with Nelidian writing as a way of becoming, highlighting the author's socio-ideological positioning, which covers gender relations through the creation of female characters marked by the sign of transgression. Then, and more specifically, we analyze the forms of subversion and disautomatization of the female body from the representation of the character Marta, in A casa da passion, and Caetana, in A doce canção de Caetana, seeking to underline counterpoints with the image of woman in the context of a patriarchal society. To develop these latter relationships, we turned to Simone de Beauvoir (1970), Michelle Perrot (2003) and Yvonne Knibiehler (2016), among others.